Weird Hook Thing

This has become known, in our house, as the “weird hook thing” – do I really need to explain why? Although, you may be wondering why we don’t call it “ugly hook thing …”

We moved into our house in 2000 which doesn’t seem like long ago, because – you know it was this century – until you do the math.

This hook was in our house when we moved in and, based on its general state (and the state of the ceiling around it – because, yes, it hangs from the ceiling) I would say it was there for a long, long time before we moved in.

Let’s talk, for a minute, about the fact that it hangs from the ceiling. I always picture this hook holding a macramé hanger and a spider plant or a fern that’s seen better days. Something like this:

 

Credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ginapina/

 

I must make clear, this is a Creative Commons image – this is not a picture from our house! This is somebody’s style, but it’s not ours. The hook is not our style.

Yet it remains in our house 17 years into our ownership of it.

Until this summer. This summer we’re doing a major bedroom shuffle. Our 6’3″ and 6’1″ sons are getting bigger rooms, where they can have bigger beds. The hook is in the room our 15-year-old is moving into.

So it’s coming down. Finally.

We have done some MAJOR work on this house – not as major as a lot of the work in our neighbourhood, but certainly involving what, for us, was a big budget along with quite a bit of dust, and the occasional curse – yet this hook has survived.

In fact, we had the truly horrible, throwback bathroom gutted before we fully moved in. This was because my husband warned me, “If we leave it, we’ll get used to it and we won’t see it anymore.”

This has happened with the hook. We don’t like it, but we’ve stopped seeing it.

Until my son walked into his new room and said, “What’s up with this weird hook thing?” He saw it because it was in his new turf.

So, out it’s going, and it’s crucial to get it out now, while he’s still seeing it. Otherwise we’ll be getting ready to put this house on the market years from now and our real estate agent will ask, “What’s up with this weird hook thing?”

Come on, now, I know we’re not the only ones with something in our house that’s become part of the scenery even though we truly despise it. What’s your “weird hook thing” equivalent? We want to know!